News tagged with water habitat

Environmental Change Impacts Oklahoma Rivers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biodiversity in freshwater systems is impacted as much or more by environmental change than tropical rain forests, according to University of Oklahoma Professor Caryn Vaughn, who serves as director of the ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 25, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Sharks under threat as environmental change bites hard

(PhysOrg.com) -- Their size and fearsome appearance have made them the stuff of nightmares, but new research just published suggests that sharks may not be as tough as they appear.

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Did the North Atlantic fisheries collapse due to fisheries-induced evolution?

The Atlantic cod has, for many centuries, sustained major fisheries on both sides of the Atlantic. However, the North American fisheries have now largely collapsed. A new paper in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ON ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0


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